# Ex Parte Wright

> Supreme Court of Alabama · November 10, 1983 · 443 So. 2d 40

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9934424

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Dorothy L. Wright (In Re Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama v. Dorothy L. Wright)
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** November 10, 1983
- **Citations:** 443 So. 2d 40; 15 Educ. L. Rep. 1017
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Jones
- **Judges:** Faulkner, Jones, Torbert
- **Cited by:** 18 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9934424

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that “[t]here can be no question that there was a partial cancellation, since the teachers’ old contract, providing that they would work ten months at a certain annual salary, was replaced by a new contract that provided they would work only nine months at a commensura…
- holding “an attempted waiver of the protection afforded by teacher tenure laws is ineffectual on public policy grounds”

## Opinion text

We would affirm, agreeing with the reasoning in the majority opinion by the Court of Civil Appeals in this case. *Page 43

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